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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 6 STAT. · March 2, 1833 · Chapter XCIX

Chapter XCIX. for the relief of John Thomas, and Peter Foster

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Chap. XCIX.— An Act for the relief of John Thomas, and Peter Foster.March 2, 1833. *Be it enacted, &c.,* That the proper accounting officers of the treasury J. Thomas allowed five years’ full pay as captain, with interest. do settle the account of John Thomas, and allow him five years’ full pay as a captain of infantry of the revolutionary army, in the Virginia line, on continental establishment, with such interest thereon, as would have been payable to the said John Thomas, if a certificate had been given him for the amount of said commutation, and the same had, by him, been subscribed to the funded debt of the United States Act of August 4, 1790, ch. 34. under the act of one thousand seven hundred and ninety.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the same accounting officers do settle the account of Peter Foster, a lieutenant of infantry of Peter Foster allowed five years’ full pay as lieutenant, with interest. the revolutionary army, of the Virginia line, and allow him five years’ full pay as such lieutenant, with such interest thereon, as is directed in the foregoing section to be allowed to John Thomas; and that the said several sums of money and interest, be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 2, 1833.
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